TOMATO GOTSU..... without Dal

GOTSU....is famous in southern parts of Tamilnadu. I tried  this GOTSU without using dal, but using pressure cooker. No Grinding is required.

TOMATO GOTSU

INGREDIENTS:-

Finely chopped Tomato - 2 nos.
Cubed Potato - 2 nos.
Finely Chopped Big Onion (Indian) - 2
Green Chillies - 2
Ginger, chopped - 1/2 inch
Salt - to taste
Red Chilly Powder - 1 tsp


For Seasoning:-
Oil - 4 tsp (teaspoon)
Urid Dal - 1/2 tsp
Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp
Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - 1 leaflet
Coriander leaves - for garnishing - 1 tablespoon.


METHOD:-

Cut the green chillies in 1/2 inch size. Peel the potato skin and cut into  cubes.

Heat  3 teaspoon of oil  in a pressure cooker ( any cooker 2 ltr or 3 ltr).  Add green chillies and ginger, saute for 20 seconds. Add chopped Onions and saute till the onions turn transculent.  Add cubed potatoes and saute for a minute.

Add chopped tomato, salt and red chilly powder and saute for 2 minutes. Add 100 ml of water.

Cover with lid. Cook for 1 whitle in high flame and 15 minutes in low flame. Switch off the burner. Allow the pressure to release. Once the pressure is released, using  karandi/spatula, mash the cooked ingredients.

In a kadai, heat 1 tsp of oil, add mustard seeds and let it splutter. Add urid dal and let it change into golden colour. Add curry leaves. Switch off the flame and add asafoetida.  Pour this seasoning into the cooker and mix well.

Garnish with chopped coriander leaves, mix well.

Simple and Tasty Tomato Gotsu is ready.

Instead of Potato, Chow chow, Knool-khool, Cauliflower can also be used.

How to make Restaurant style Dosai @ home?

Kids, most of them, prefers Dosas than Idlis, and that too Restaurant Style Dosas.

In some houses, they keep separate Tawa for Dosa and separate tawa for Chappati.

By following this trick, there will be no need for 2 different tawas.

We can  easily prepare at our kitchen, using regular normal Dosa Tawa ( not non-stick).

Heat the tawa. Add a few drops of oil over it and rub the oil using Tamarind. We can use Fork for holding the tamarind, to rub the oil on Tawa, because the tawa will be very hot.

Pour the Dosa batter and make dosas.

Using Tamarind, on Dosa tawa is the trick, to get Restaurant Style Dosa. We can reuse this tamarind in Sambhar, or Thogaiyal etc. 

Note:- Instead of tamarind, we can use small onions too. (Some peope won't like onion smell).